| neoaulonastus grewlingi sp. nov. (prostigmata: cheyletoidea: syringophilidae) a new quill mite species parasitizing falcunculus frontatus (passeriformes: falcunculidae) in australia. | a new quill mite species neoaulonastus grewlingi sp. nov. parasitizing australian endemic falcunculus frontatus (latham) (passeriformes: falcunculidae) is described. this new species differs from n. caligatus skoracki by the following characters: apunctate pygidial shield and coxal fields i-iv, setae c1 1.4 times longer than d1, and lengths of setae ve 20, si 15-25, se 155-175 and c2 145-155. this is the first record of syringophilid mites from hosts of the family falcunculidae and first registe ... | 2013 | 23377907 |
| descriptions of two new species of quasithelazia maplestone, 1932 (spirurida: acuariidae) and a redescription of alinema sturni jögis, 1968 from birds in australia. | quasithelazia minuta n. sp. and quasithelazia pearsoni n. sp. (spirurida: acuariidae) are described from todiramphus sanctus (vigors & horsfield) (coraciiformes: alcedinidae) in australia. alinema sturni jögis, 1968 from sturnus vulgaris (l.) (passeriformes: sturnidae) in europe, is considered to belong in the subfamily schistorophinae travassos, 1918 (and not in the seuratiinae chitwood & wehr, 1932, where it has previously been placed) on the basis of the number of the pairs of precloacal papi ... | 2016 | 27307167 |